Transcending Time: My Past Life Regression Experience with Dr. Brian Weiss
Would you believe me if I said that all moments in time — past, present, and future — exist simultaneously? That in reality, time is just a construct that we humans have invented for our convenience. Well, I have an experience to share that helped me understand this concept firsthand.
After my mom’s death, due to certain turn of events, I became very curious about what happens to a person after they die. I started researching about concepts like reincarnation, after-life, near death experiences etc. During my research, I came across Dr. Brian Weiss, a prominent psychiatrist and pioneer in hypnotherapy and past life regression. I was fascinated by his stories on YouTube and bought his best-selling book, “Many Lives, Many Masters”.
In this book, Weiss tells the story of one of his therapy patients, Catherine, who sought treatment for severe phobias, insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, and depression. Since traditional therapy methods didn’t work successfully, Weiss suggested hypnosis to access Catherine’s repressed childhood memories that were deep rooted in her psyche.
As they started the therapy, Weiss directed Catherine to go back to the time that would hold the key to her current health symptoms. He assumed Catherine’s mind would naturally regress to a buried trauma in her early childhood. Instead, Catherine began describing her first past life memory — where she was was a young woman living in 1863 BC. In vivid detail, she described drowning alongside her young daughter. The memory was so intense that Catherine began to choke and gag while describing it.
This incident challenged Weiss’s scientific and spiritual beliefs. At first, he quickly dismissed the possibility that Catherine was accessing a past life. However, over time and with multiple sessions, he came to understand that they were tapping into something outside the norms of his rational beliefs.
A couple of months after reading this book, my friend Archita invited me and another friend to attend a weekend workshop with her. I was surprised to learn that this was Dr. Weiss’ workshop. I actually wondered if this was just a coincidence? Excitedly, I signed up and was curious to see how the group experience would work. When we arrived at the event, the huge auditorium quickly filled up with people from various backgrounds.
Weiss began the workshop by sharing his insights and experiences from his decades-long career. He shared many accounts of how past lives can affect our present lives. He also explained the process of past life regression and emphasized that it was not necessary to believe in reincarnation or past lives to benefit from the therapy. The main goal was to access the unconscious mind and address any unresolved issues that might be causing problems in the present. After his talk, he conducted a series of group regression exercises and healing visualizations.
In one exercise, he guided the group into a deeply relaxed state and asked us to go to an event in a past lifetime. I tried my best to follow his instructions, but all I saw was a modern white living room with a huge window and a white kitchen. There was some sort of painting on one wall. My conscious mind was confused. For this scene definitely did not look like a past life to me. I tried and re-tried but I could not see any ancient times. I quickly became frustrated and gave up thinking that this is not my cup of tea.
After this exercise, we did a few more activities which I found to be somewhat more successful and provided me with some confidence and understanding of some of my physical issues at the time. However, I still remained skeptical, as I wasn’t sure if this was just my imagination or if it was genuine information coming from the deeper levels of my mind.
At the end of the event, I shared my confusion with Dr. Weiss during a book signing. I told him that I couldn’t see a past life during the regression exercise and what I saw was relatively modern. He explained to me that time isn’t linear and I may have seen another life which might be happening parallelly in the same time frame as now. He also said everything is happening simultaneously and we can access any moment in deep states of mind. This was truly a big concept for me to wrap my head around at that time.
A couple of days later, I was at work when my colleague, Shweta, asked me to come with her to our manager Tina’s studio apartment. Tina was traveling and had asked Shweta to pick up some important documents from her apartment and ship it to her immediately.
I agreed to accompany Shweta and as we reached Tina’s apartment, Shweta went into her bedroom to pick the documents and I decided to wait for her in Tina’s living room. As soon as I entered that living room, I had a deja vu moment. My jaw dropped as this was indeed the same room that I had seen in my regression experience with Dr. Weiss. There was a big window, white apartment, big painting on the wall, and a white kitchen.
I was stunned, surprised, and amazed all at once. I quickly realized that my past life regression experience with Dr. Weiss had been more meaningful and transformative than I initially thought. This event helped me understand what Dr. Brian Weiss was trying to explain to me. I realized that during the regression session, I had accessed my future timeline that was also happening simultaneously with the timeline I was in.
In the years to follow after this incident, I was able to access some of my past lives that gave me insights into my current relationships and life challenges. These were beautiful experiences that healed me and transformed my perspective in some way.
I know it must be difficult for anyone to believe this, but I would say do your own research and have an open mind, for reality is very different from what we have been programmed to believe in.
